Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Academic
1950 –
Who is Tetsuro Matsuzawa?
Tetsuro Matsuzawa is a primatologist who is director of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University.
Matsuzawa is known for his research on chimpanzee intelligence both in the laboratory and in the wild. His laboratory work consists of the Ai-project, which focuses on the language-like skills, number-concepts, and memory ability of a female chimpanzee named Ai. Started in 1978, it is one of the longest running laboratory research projects on chimpanzee intelligence. Matsuzawa has been a part of the project since the beginning. Matsuzawa has also studied tool use in the wild chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea, West Africa since 1986. The bossou chimpanzee community consists of about 12 individuals and has been studied by Japanese researchers for three decades. Bossou chimps are well known to use a pair of stones as hammer and anvil to crack open oil-palm nuts.
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- Born
- Oct 15, 1950
Ehime Prefecture - Nationality
- Japan
- Education
- Kyoto University
- Employment
- Kyoto University
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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